The Agent-Community-based Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval (ACP2P) method uses agent communities to manage and look up information of interest to users. An agent works as a dele...
Inverted files are widely used to index documents in large-scale information retrieval systems. An inverted file consists of posting lists, which can be stored in either a documen...
Abstract--Expertise matching, aiming to find the alignment between experts and queries, is a common problem in many real applications such as conference paper-reviewer assignment, ...
Awareness of the need for robustness in distributed systems increases as distributed systems become integral parts of day-to-day systems. Self-stabilizing while tolerating ongoing ...
In the context of natural multimodal dialogue systems, we address the challenging issue of the definition of cooperative answers in an appropriate multimodal form. Highlighting th...
Meriam Horchani, Benjamin Caron, Laurence Nigay, F...